Examples of rainstorm in a Sentence
we ran into a big rainstorm on Highway 6, and the visibility was so poor we had to pull over
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Then a light rainstorm caught the dust — and ended before clean rain could wash away the dirty
What to do: A subsequent rainstorm typically won't be enough to rinse away the mud drops.
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Erin Alberty, Axios, 3 Mar. 2025
The storm dumped several inches of snow over states like Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia that were ravaged by a deadly rainstorm last weekend.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
During rainstorms, runoff sometimes overwhelms the plant’s sewage treatment system, dumping a mixture of sewage and storm runoff directly into the Pacific Ocean – an event known as a combined sewer overflow.
—Robin Kundis Craig, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2025
By one estimate, a single square meter of ground may be pelted with 100 million bacteria during every hour of a rainstorm.
—Carl Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025
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Erin Alberty, Axios, 3 Mar. 2025
The storm dumped several inches of snow over states like Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia that were ravaged by a deadly rainstorm last weekend.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
During rainstorms, runoff sometimes overwhelms the plant’s sewage treatment system, dumping a mixture of sewage and storm runoff directly into the Pacific Ocean – an event known as a combined sewer overflow.
—Robin Kundis Craig, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2025
By one estimate, a single square meter of ground may be pelted with 100 million bacteria during every hour of a rainstorm.
—Carl Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Rainstorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rainstorm. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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rainstorm
noun
rain·storm
-ˌstȯ(ə)rm 
: a storm of or with rain
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